#GAME RETURNS TO HOME WHEN TRYING TO CONNECT TO A HOST SERVER

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inner tendon
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Since I bought the game, I haven't been able to connect to my other friend's servers and also the other way around, they can't connect to mine. It's just loading and then no error message, the game just goes directly back to HOME MENU.

Can somebody help please. 3 hours into the game just trying to fix this issue. Tried a few fixes I saw online and here in discord like flushing the dns etc.

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honest girder
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Possible issues:

Something just went wrong within network set up

It is quite common that something could go wrong just because your machine or your router worked without rebooting for a long time. Turning it off and on again sometimes can do magic… no one in the world know why... but before trying other things, try doing the basics:

Reboot your PC
Shut down Steam and relog
Reboot your router
Check the game's file integrity

Block by your ISP

We are seeing that quite a few ISPs are blocking access to our backend service that help player to connect. We do not understand why this happens yet, but we are trying to reach out to them and try t address this. A few has already replied and unblocked us allowing players to play normally, however this process could take time.

If your ISP has any sort of app or a website where you can turn off additional security settings - try doing this, it could help!
If you know a place where your ISP shows a list of blocked sites - try looking for something that has windrose.support in it - this is us! Please unblock!
Try connecting via different connection services (even if you are from NA, if you can not connect with your friends, try selecting Asia or CIS and see if it works for you)
We cannot recommend to install any third party software, but quite a few people reported that using apps like https://one.one.one.one/ or similar to this one could help to bypass this block until it is lifted by ISPs
You network settings priorities IPv6 over IPv4

The game is currently architected to use IPv4, so if your IPv6 priority is much higher there could be connection issues. Disabling IPv6, or increasing IPv4 priority could sole that issue.

https://playwindrose.com/faq/#faq-ipv6

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You are playing from the same network

We currently have an issue with PC's connecting to each other from the same network could not connect ot each other via invite code. We are working on finding a solution to allow regular connection for this setup. However we have recently released an update that allows connection via IP. Connecting via direct IP should allow playing from the same network without any issues.

Please note: If you want other players to connect to you via direct IP, you need to set up your router accordingly.

Your PC name is not in English letters? It could sometimes be the reason...

It may sound strange.... but if everything else fails check if your PC name contains only English letters.

inner tendon
inner tendon
inner tendon
honest girder
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happy it helped sir! hope your futher jorney would be smoother! and I hope that IPS thing will be resolved soon, so you don't need anything to play the game